morphology

• The study of word structure and formation is called morphology, and the meaningful parts of a word are known as morphemes.
• The joy in pure and intense colour, in abruptness of line and intricacy of structure, in energetic movement and sudden disclosure and transformation,—all these characteristics have their analogies in Browning's feeling for the complexion, morphology, and dynamics of what he calls the soul. —  Robert Browning
• The geeks muttered about braincase size and brain morphology, and shook their heads. —  InterzoneScienceFictionandFantasyMagazine#214
• This lecture marked an epoch in England in vertebrate morphology, and the views enunciated in it carried forward, if somewhat modified, as they have been, not only by Huxley's subsequent researches and by those of his disciples, but especially by the splendid work of Gegenbauer, are still, in the main, the views of the anatomists of to-day. —  The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley V.1
• One of the common elements of fantasy morphology is a journey through darkness (think the mines of Moria) so the title had some resonance beyond the book I was writing. —  Challenging Destiny - 2005 - 21

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